My second major website project is finally complete... I give you:
The new St. Cecilia Parish Website! I began speaking with Fr. William Vatterott after he called me and asked about taking some new pictures of the parish Church (which is stunningly beautiful!) and helping promote the parish through the website. Two months later, their website is on Drupal, and the 'History' section of the site is chock-full of pictures of the Church. Check them out!
I used my Nikon D40 (I didn't have my D90 until two days ago!) along with a few well-placed speedlights (for a few of the pictures) to get all the pictures. About 80% of them are HDR (meaning I took multiple exposures, some darker, some brighter, of the same thing, then blended them together in Photomatix Pro). I will be doing a more extensive writeup either here or on Flickr of one of the techniques I used to balance the stained glass window with the ambient lighting...
More... always more... to come. The new year is going to be very exciting, and I can't wait to share some news about future developments!
There it is; the first picture taken with my new D90. The first of thousands! I've also been taking some videos... and let me assure you—this camera is not meant to replace a video camcorder! I will be posting more pictures and information about my first impressions of the camera as time goes on. The big decision now is whether I'm going to sell my D40 or keep it as a second body for certain events...
I'm happy to announce today that I am now an uncle of two handsome boys—Joseph and Gabriel. Little baby Gabriel was born just shy of 9 pounds (heavy kid!), and is a very calm baby; he made a few little noises here and there, but didn't cry during the whole time I visited!
I'm still working on what I'm going to call the little guy... maybe 'Baby G' (what I've been saying so far), 'G-money,' 'G-rizzle,' or 'G'baby' (probably not the last one). I know my sister would rather I just call him Gabriel... but it's nice to have a good nickname for one's nephews. Joseph has been 'JoeBaby' for some time now, and maybe the nicknames will help me to keep their names straight, eh?
Now what would we call a programming language similar to the Catholic Church? How about C†† (pronounced C Cross Cross). Like St. Paul the Church teaches Christ crucified and the cross is never missing from our lives. The C of course stands for Catholic and the universal binary that the code produces. The universal binary is of course accessible by all operating systems. Though while we see the good that is common to many programming languages we hope that all will come to accept the fullness of C††. As programmers we don't want to be triumphalists, but to help to spread the good code to every nation.
The basics of the language C†† would be fixed. Though interfaces can be later added on that help to access the underlying language. The code structures would be based both on apostolic programming tradition and the reference book. The compiler also known as the magisterium would rely on the CDF (Coding for the Doctrine of the Flow) to ensure wayward code was corrected and brought back into fullness of the code specification. When bad code is detected the compiler would throw an anathema.
One of the funniest blog posts I've read in a long while. I highly recommend you read it, too, especially if you have any familiarity at all with computer programming (or even basic PHP!).
